14-00000

104-10298-10095 Pi

| 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 |

4

ry
BITE
A323 N>
CNITED STATES DEPAKT LNT OF JUSTICE
. repens HORE AL app Ny LS TIGATION Miamt, Plorida ;
In Reply. Please Refer to RE: CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY CouncIL APril 16, 1963
File No, INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA :

D | —

, The April 9, 1963, issue of the "Miami News"
carried an article entitled, "Exiles Say Miro.To Quit",
This article stated that informed exile sources claim
that Dr. JOSE MIRO CARDONA would rezizn his post as head
of the Cuban Revolutionary Council. Tne article said
exile sources gave two possioillities for his resignation.
One faction believed that MIRO's recent trip to Washington
from which he returned Sunday (April..7) was to pin down the
United States Government to a Statement of positive policy
regarding Cuba. Another school of thought was that the
Council head was retiring from his poet in protest of -
Governnent curbing of hit-and-run raids. on the Comaunist
island of Cuba.

The article went on to state that pr. MIRO's
leadership in the Council, aimed at uniting all Cuban
exiles, nas been burdened by problems since his appointment

in March 1961,

On April 10, 1963, MM T-1, a former Cuban
business executive, who is employed by the Cuban Revolutionary
Council and who is a close personal friend of Dr. MIRO CARDONA,
who has furnished some reliable information in the past,
advised that an all-night sesaion of the Council was held
beginning April 9, and ending at about 6:00 A.M., on
April 10, during which time MIRO CARDONA presented his
resignation but the Council refused to accept his resignation
and MIRO CARDONA was persuaded to remain as President of the

Council.

MM T-1 said that MIRO's resignation consisted of
a 25-page statement which was in effect an indictment against
the administration of President JOH; FP, KENNEDY of the United
States. In rejecting his resignation, the Council backed up

CS copy

/G- a aay


14-0000

CUSAN REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL

“STERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

MIRO but in the interest of both the United States and the
Cuban exiles, decided upon a public statement which reads

as follows;

"CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL . .
a eee Rn

"The Cuban Revolutionary Council, having studied
the report of its President, Dr. Jose Miro Cardona, concerning
present relations with the United States Government, agrees:

"1. Not to accept the resignation of Dr. Jose Miro Cardona,
and declare its full Support for the basic plans contained
in his resignation,

"2, To affirm that there ig a serious crisis, brought about
by the present policy of the government of this country,

"3. To express the Council's hope of overcoming the present
crisis and calling upon all of America, including the United
States, for moral and material support in their fight to
regain their sovereignty and independence, and the strict .
fulfilment of American treaties and agreements, as well

as the joint resolution of the U. S. Congress, calling for
effective action against Soviet intervention in America..

"4, To affirm that the Council has always insisted, and
still insists, upon the necessity of Cuban participation

in the process of liberating Cuba. The only procedure
which the Council would accept would be coordination of
forces, on a plans of complete respect for national dignity,
Cuba will never renounce her legitimate right to be in the
firat line of combat.

"5. To reaffirm their unshakeable decision to continue the
fight againet the Soviet-Castro regime, under any circumstances

whatsoever,

2,


14-0000

CUBAN REVOWTIONARY COUNCIL .
INTEMMAL SECURITY - CUBA.

"6. In these difficult times, the Cuban Revolutionary
Council urges all Cubans to close ranks to achieve the
national unity needed to hasten our march towards
Freedom, :

"Miami, April 10,-.1963¢=:%:

"Movimiento Democrata Cristiano
(Christian Democratic Movement)
JOSE FERNANDEZ BADUE

"Movimiento de Recuperacion Revolucionaria
(Movement for Revolutionary Recovery)
CESAR BARO

c hate” : 2g

"Agrupacion Montecristi
(Montecrist1 Group)
FRANCISCO CARRILLO

"Unidad Revolucionaria .
(Revolutionary Union)
FERNANDO FERNANDEZ CABADA

“Rescate Democratico Revoluctonario
(Revolutionary Democratic Recovery)
RAUL MENDEZ PIREZ

“Movimiento Revolucionary 30 de Noviembre
(30th of November Revolutionary Movement) :
ORLANDO RODRIGUEZ

“Accion Revolucionaria Democratica
(Democratic Revolutionary Action)
GERARDO QUESADA

"Frente Obrero Revoluctonario de Cuba (FORDC)
(Revolutionary Labor Front of Cuba

"Military Section
JOSE E, MONTEAGUDO


14-0000

CUDRAN REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL
INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

"Sector Profesional
(Prefessional Section)
ENRIQUE HUERTAS

"Corporaciones Economicas
(Economie Branch
Dr. TULIO DIAZ RIVERA

MANUEL ANTONIO DE VARONA™

SERGIO CARBO
RICARDO LORIE
ANTONIO MACEO
ANTONIO SILIO, Secretary

MM T-1 explained that when Dr, MIRO CARDONA returned
to Miami from a trip to Washington, D. C., on Sunday, where he
contacted high government officials, he came away with the

feeling that:

we or Communism, . :

1) The United States has no plan to free Cuba

2) If the United States ever does formulate any
plans, it will do 30 without consideration
for the Cuban exiles in the United States,

3) ~The United Statea policy is now one of
peaceful co-existence with Communist Cuba,

MM T-1 said that in his opinion, the Cuban exiles
are frustrated, confused, losing faith in the United States
and there is a growing feeling of abandonment of them by the

United States.

The April 10, 1963, issue of the "Miami Herald”
carried a headline article entitled, "Miro Resigns as Exile
Chief; Raps U. S. Policy", This article stated that MIRO
CARDONA resigned because the United States refused to allocate
fifty million dollars to train a Cuban invasion force, according

4,

Pome

14-0000

CUBAM FEVOLTIONARY COUNCIL
INTZPNAL S20:URITY - CUBA

to government sources. The article said that exile leaders
close to MIRO said he resigned not only because of disagree-
ment witn United States policy, “but because he feels
Waeninzgton dves not have any concrete plans to deal with

the dictator",

dhe portsedets . casey: .

The April 11, 1963, 1esue of the "Miami Herald"
carsied an article entitled, "Cuban Extle Council Vows to
Continue the Freedom Fight". In this article it was
Btated that the Cuban Revolutionary Council had vowed to
continue ite fight against Castro-Communism whether the
United Itates likes 1t or not. The article said that Dr,
MIRO CARDONA denied reports from U. S. Government sources
that he offered his resignation to the Council because the
United Ztatea refused to allocate fifty million dollars to
train a Cuban invasion force. The article stated thet an
informed source said that MIRO decided to quit "because
of tne change in the U. S. ~ Cuban poltay™.

Tne April 16, 1963, issue of the "Miami Herald”
carried an article entitled "JFK Accepts Demand, Fidel Says".
This article by the UPI bearing a Havana dateline reported
that FIDEL CASTRO told Cubans on Thursday (April 11) that the
KENUEDT Administration has accepted one of his five demands
for an end to tension in the Caribbean. This article stated
that in a one hour and forty minute speech, CASTRO said that
Waehington in forbidding exiles to carry on further armed
attacca on Cuba, has fulfilled one-of "five points for peace"
advancec cy nim and endorsed by the Soviet Union. The article
then went on to state that PIDEL announced that there are
still fcar ecnditions to be fulfilled and that acceptance of
them is the only sensible thing the KENNEDY Administration
can do, One of the five conditions, according to the article,
is U. 3. evacuation of the big Naval base at Guantanamc.

On the morning of April 15, 1963, Miami radio news

broadcasts announced MIRO CARDONA would again offer his
resignation to the Council on that same day.

5.

14-0000

: A Je

CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY ComIcIL
INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

On April 15, 1963, MM T-1 advised that he was
positive that MIRO CARDONA did not intend to again tender
his resignation on Monday, April 15, 1962, but was
contemplating taking that action on the following Thursday, |
April 18, 1963. MM T-1 said that the Council was meeting ~... .
on Thursday to take a ‘definite attitude or’ tough line of ome ae
action and that it waa entirely probable that all of the
members of the Council might resigh in protest to the present
policy of the United 2tates with regard to the Cuban situation.
He said that the prezent feeling of the Council towards the
United States is tasically "to hell with it",

MM T-1 expressed the personal feeling that Y. 3,
policy towards Cuba 1s presentlyin a vacuum and consequently
everything is at a standstill. The Cuban exiles in the
Miami area feel that the U. S. is abandoning their cause
and has now adopted a course of peaceful cc-existence with

Communist Cuba.

On April 15, 1963, MM T-2, a Cuban exile who has .
furnished some reliable information in the past and who 1s we
associated with fellow Cubans’ who belong to several different
Organizations, ddvieed that reaction among the Cuban exiles ae
is "very bad against the United States", He explained that the one
Cuban exiles allege that President KENNEDY nae made promises OE,
to help them in their fight against CASTRO but 18 now opposing
them and consequently they feel that the U. 8. 18 now committed
to a policy of peaceful co-existence with Communist Cuba. _

“ The Cuban exiles are fearful as to the future, confused as to.
why the U. S. has chanzed its policy and the exiles feel that
they have been abandoned in their fight.

PROPERTY OF PBI - This memorandum 1s loaned to you
by the PBI and neither it nor its contents are to be dis-
tributed outside the agency to which loaned.

6.#


